The Ukrainian military launched its largest drone barrage to date against Russia as talks got underway with US officials in Saudi Arabia. Moscow said Kyiv's strikes on civilian targets undermine the effort to settle the war, despite its own history of hitting civilian infrastructure.

'The Five' co-hosts react to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer roasted for a video feeding Doritos to a left-wing influencer. Former Vice President Kamala Harris was roasted for delivering another "word salad" on a public stage after trying to tie the "innovation" of Big Tech to her love of nacho cheese Doritos during an artificial intelligence conference. "Kamala just tried to explain innovation and it is the dumbest thing I have ever heard," popular conservative X account End Wokeness posted to its account accompanied by a clip of Harris. Harris attended the Human[X] AI conference Sunday in Las Vegas, which was billed as Harris' "first post-election address." She took the stage with Nuno Sebastiao, the CEO of data science company Feedzai.

Kyiv, Ukraine – On Sunday, a top Russian security official in Moscow lauded dozens of servicemen who used an abandoned natural gas pipeline as a tunnel to infiltrate a Ukraine-occupied area in the western Russian region of Kursk. "The lid of a boiling cauldron is almost closed! Good job!" Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president and prime minister before becoming deputy head of Russia's Security Council, wrote on Telegram. But a Ukrainian serviceman deployed in Kursk offered a starkly different version of how the Russians barely got out of the pipeline on Saturday – only to be reportedly killed en masse. "Some suffocated right [in the pipeline], some turned back. About a hundred came out in our rear, split into two groups and were almost immediately ambushed by our special forces. And [also killed by] a massive squall of artillery," Evhen Sazonov wrote on Telegram.

Ukraine has targeted Moscow with a large overnight drone attack as Russia's Ministry of Defence says it has shot down 337 unmanned aircraft across the country. "The Defence Ministry's air defence continues to repel a massive attack by enemy drones on Moscow," Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram early on Tuesday. Three people are reported to have been killed and three wounded in the southern suburbs of Moscow, according to Governor Andrei Vorobyov. He added that drone debris damaged at least seven units in a residential building in another suburb southeast of the city. The attack on the Russian capital, hundreds of kilometres from the Ukrainian border, comes before a meeting between United States and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia.

Atlantic Council senior fellow Ariel Cohen and Heritage Foundation senior fellow Charles'Cully' Stimson discuss the state of the war amid White House tensions with President Zelenskyy. Ukraine launched its largest-ever drone attack on Moscow on Tuesday as a senior delegation met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz in Saudi Arabia for talks about ending the war with Russia. A total of 337 drones were shot down Tuesday over Russia, including 91 in the Moscow area and 126 in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine, Reuters reported, citing Russia's defense ministry. Moscow-based meat producer Miratorg said two of its employees were killed by falling debris, while 18 other people – including three children – were injured after residential buildings were struck, officials told Reuters. Images taken in Russia showed damage to cars and apartment buildings in the wake of the attack, which temporarily shut down Moscow's four airports.

The Justice Department said in a filing that Google will have to break up its network of myriad, overlapping businesses and services, upholding the previous administration's proposal. The DOJ reiterated Google will have to sell the Chrome browser -- saying, last year, that selling off Chrome "will permanently stop Google's control of this critical search access point and allow rival search engines the ability to access the browser that for many users is a gateway to the internet." Google is likely to file its own alternate remedies, of course. In a December filing, the company said the Justice Department's original remedies went "overboard" and reflected an "interventionist agenda." But Google is huge, and the DOJ is trying to grasp how its parts intermingle and make it less monopolistic.

The use of drones by several African countries in their fight against armed groups is causing significant harm to civilians, according to a new report. More than 943 civilians have been killed in at least 50 incidents across six African countries from November 2021 to November 2024, according to the report by Drone Wars UK. The report, titled Death on Delivery, reveals that strikes regularly fail to distinguish between civilians and combatants in their operations. Experts told Al Jazeera that the death toll is likely only the tip of the iceberg because many countries run secretive drone campaigns. As drones rapidly become the weapon of choice for governments across the continent, what are the consequences for civilians in conflict zones?

Techno-optimism – the belief that technology will usher in a golden age for humanity – is in vogue once more. In 2022, a clutch of pseudonymous San Francisco artificial intelligence (AI) scenesters published a Substack post entitled "Effective Accelerationism", which argued for maximum acceleration of technological advancement. The 10-point manifesto, which proclaimed that "the next evolution of consciousness, creating unthinkable next-generation lifeforms and silicon-based awareness" was imminent, quickly went viral, as did follow-up posts. Effective accelerationism, or "e/acc", exploded from being a fringe movement dedicated to pushing back against AI extinction-fearing "doomers" to being namechecked by major Silicon Valley CEOs such as Garry Tan, the CEO of start-up accelerator Y Combinator; Sam Altman, head of OpenAI; Marc Andreessen, the billionaire software engineer; and Elon Musk. In 2023, Andreessen issued his Techno-Optimist Manifesto, expanding beyond the e/acc's focus on AI to encompass all questions of technological progress.

First, let's get the pesky business of defining AGI out of the way. In practice, it's a deeply hazy and changeable term shaped by the researchers or companies set on building the technology. But it usually refers to a future AI that outperforms humans on cognitive tasks. Which humans and which tasks we're talking about makes all the difference in assessing AGI's achievability, safety, and impact on labor markets, war, and society. That's why defining AGI, though an unglamorous pursuit, is not pedantic but actually quite important, as illustrated in a new paper published this week by authors from Hugging Face and Google, among others.

For some years now, China's annual gathering of its national legislature had been an increasingly disciplined and choreographed affair -- its muted vibes practically an echo of deepening concern about domestic stagnation. The National People's Congress seven-day gathering, which concludes Tuesday in Beijing, came on the heels of a breakthrough in artificial intelligence by China's home-grown startup DeepSeek that's fired up investors, politicians and even regulators. It also followed Chinese President Xi Jinping's high-profile meeting with business chiefs including Jack Ma.